{"product_id":"weird-normal","title":"Weird \u0026 Normal","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when the world starts to look the same? When every product, post, and platform starts to feel like dŽjˆ vu? Weird the Normal \/ Normal the Weird is a split-spined manifesto for creative thinkers, brand builders, and anyone curious about the strange new symbiosis between humans and machines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAcross two front covers that meet in the middle, James Hurst Ñ Creative Director, musician, and educator Ñ explores how we can use design to make sense of a rapidly converging world. Side A (Weird the Normal) celebrates the bold misfits and imaginative thinkers who turn everyday norms inside out Ñ from toilet paper brands to tech startups. Side B (Normal the Weird) examines what happens when the unconventional becomes ordinary: when robotaxis break social rules, or when AI aesthetics flatten originality into sameness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThreaded with cultural analysis, personal stories, and creative provocations, this book invites readers to think like designers in a post-AI age Ñ to see pattern as poetry, mistakes as meaning, and weirdness as a superpower.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePart essay collection, part field manual, Weird the Normal \/ Normal the Weird is not a book about machines. ItÕs a book about being human Ñ about how we adapt, remix, and redesign our world when the boundaries between real and artificial, beautiful and banal, begin to blur., weird the normal, normal the weird, aesthetic intelligence, creative intelligence, brand design, design thinking, James Hurst| 9781326061999 | 156PAGES\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Hurst","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46768031793313,"sku":"9781326061999","price":34.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/gjdwrwv-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1785204474","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/weird-normal","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}